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Everybody from startups to company clients can study funding tendencies at RoboBusiness. Credit score: Summer season Robotics
After commerce conflicts, the COVID-19 pandemic, and a hunch within the robotics market, what ought to entrepreneurs, traders, and clients be in search of? An knowledgeable panel will analyze the newest robotics funding tendencies at RoboBusiness 2024, which will probably be on Oct. 16 and 17 in Santa Clara, Calif.
This session, which brings collectively traders and roboticists, will focus on the challenges and alternatives of fundraising, from early stage capital via commercialization. The panelists will focus on the present state of robotics investments, which applied sciences and purposes are discovering demand, and associated applied sciences similar to synthetic intelligence.
They may even make clear the variations between strategic and institutional traders, the position of geography, and the place the trade is headed.
This panel, a part of the Driving Enterprise observe, will probably be at 1:30 p.m. PT on Day 2 of the occasion, in Room 212 of the Santa Clara Conference Middle.
Startup, traders to share insights into robotics funding tendencies
Schuyler Cullen is co-founder and CEO of Summer season Robotics Inc., which has developed a basic new method to robotic visible intelligence. The Campbell, Calif.-based firm stated its software program is powering extra competent robots on the manufacturing line and in future contexts the place robots must deal with unsure and sophisticated circumstances.
Cullen has contributed to the fields of robotics, visible intelligence, and autonomous automobiles. Most lately, he was vice chairman of AI and robotics at Samsung, the place he led researchers and engineers constructing Samsung’s autonomous mobility stack for robots and automobiles. Whereas at Samsung, Cullen additionally engaged with tutorial teams, having helped convey trade alliances similar to Berkeley BDD and BAIR to life.
Cullen holds levels in arithmetic and physics from Caltech and earned a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Stanford. His tutorial profession consists of achievements similar to working with Nobel Prize-winning professors and contributing to analysis in particle physics and string idea.
Ivy Nguyen is principal at Autotech Ventures. She has labored with groups using a broad vary of enterprise fashions constructed round AI, machine studying, and automation, from conventional enterprise software-as-a-service (SaaS) to full-stack, tech-enabled producers, building corporations, and healthcare suppliers.
Beforehand, Nguyen labored at Blackhorn Ventures, the place she invested in startups driving decarbonization in building, manufacturing, and provide chain actions. Nguyen additionally led early-stage investments in AI startups at Point72 Ventures and Zetta Enterprise Companions.
She is a thought chief on AI investing and entrepreneurship who has printed in TechCrunch and VentureBeat. Nguyen was named amongst Forbes’ “30 beneath 30 in Enterprise Capital” in 2018 for her work in AI. She earned a B.S. in chemical engineering from Stanford College.
Eric Truebenbach is managing director of Teradyne Robotics Ventures. He’s a longtime participant in robotics and automation, as an inventor, a frontrunner of two inner startups, an acquirer, and an investor.
In Teradyne Company Improvement, he performed a key position within the acquisitions of collaborative robotic chief Common Robots, cell robotic supplier Cell Industrial Robots, and others. Truebenbach presently manages the firm’s company enterprise fund devoted to investing in automation and AI to make folks safer, extra productive, and extra engaged.
A holder of dozens of patents, Truebenbach can be licensed to apply earlier than the U.S. Patent Workplace, and he’s a Teradyne Engineering Fellow.
Moderator Eugene Demaitre is editorial director for robotics at WTWH Media, which additionally produces The Robotic Report, Automated Warehouse, and the Robotics Summit & Expo along with RoboBusiness. Previous to working for WTWH Media, he was an editor at BNA (now a part of Bloomberg), Computerworld, TechTarget, and Robotics Enterprise Assessment.
For practically a decade, Demaitre has participated in robotics conferences worldwide, in addition to spoken on quite a few webcasts and podcasts. He’s all the time fascinated about studying and sharing extra in regards to the newest expertise and trade developments.
Demaitre has a grasp’s from the George Washington College and lives within the Boston space.
Register at present for RoboBusiness 2024
Along with funding tendencies and enterprise matters associated to operating a robotics firm, RoboBusiness will deal with robotics innovation and enabling applied sciences. Keynotes on the occasion will function:
- Rodney Brooks, co-founder and chief expertise officer at Strong AI, in addition to co-founder of iRobot and Rethink Robotics
- Sergey Levine, co-founder of Bodily Intelligence and an affiliate professor at UC Berkeley
- Claire Delaunay, chief expertise officer at farm-ng
- Torrey Smith, co-founder and CEO of Endiatx
RoboBusiness may even embody greater than 60 audio system, over 100 exhibitors and demos on the expo flooring, 10+ hours of devoted networking time, the Pitchfire Robotics Startup Competitors, a Girls in Robotics Luncheon, and extra.
RoboBusiness will probably be co-located with DeviceTalks West, which focuses on the design and growth of medical units. Hundreds of robotics practitioners from world wide will convene in Silicon Valley, so register now to make sure your spot!
For details about sponsorship and exhibition alternatives, obtain the prospectus. Questions concerning sponsorship alternatives needs to be directed to Colleen Sepich at csepich[AT]wtwhmedia.com.
